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AI & I

AI & I

Dan Shipper 115 Episodes Oct 14, 2026

Learn how the smartest people in the world are using AI to think, create, and relate. Each week I interview founders, filmmakers, writers, investors, and others about how they use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Midjourney in their work and in their lives. We screen-share through their historical chats and then experiment with AI live on the show. Join us to discover how AI is changing how we think about our world—and ourselves.

Episodes

How Hugging Face’s Investor Spots Winners
How Hugging Face’s Investor Spots Winners Oct 14, 2026 3062 Check out Gemini Audio: https://goo.gle/Every-Gemini-Audio Bet on founders who understand the technology, because their first idea probably won’t be the one that sticks. That’s the view of Matt Hartman, founder and managing partner of Factorial Capital. In 2016, as a partner at Betaworks, Hartman was part of the team that wrote the first check into Hugging Face, which was then a chatbot app for te
Why Every Traded Personal Agents for One Company Agent
Why Every Traded Personal Agents for One Company Agent Oct 7, 2026 2026 Subscribe to Every (free for 14 days): every.to/podcast-every-offer?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=companyagentepisode  On this week's episode of The Every Podcast, Dan Shipper sits down with Willie Williams, Every's head of platform and one of the driving forces behind the Every Agent, which launched this week. They discuss how Every went from everyone running their own OpenClaw
How Sam Altman Uses Dots to Take Back His Time
How Sam Altman Uses Dots to Take Back His Time Sep 30, 2026 1990 Sam Altman's Dot, OpenAI's new always-on agent, gave him back the most productive part of his day. The OpenAI CEO would lose his early mornings—his window of "maximum creativity"—to whatever fire needed putting out. Now, his Dot triages those issues and flags only what's truly urgent. It's also gotten him building again: In spare moments, he gives his Dot ideas for a feature, and his Dot builds f
How a Professional Writer Writes With AI
How a Professional Writer Writes With AI Sep 2, 2026 2878 Two years ago, Katie Parrott was laid off from a crypto firm and couldn’t afford a career coach—so she turned to a $20-a-month ChatGPT subscription instead. The Every staff writer’s habit of feeding AI good context eventually became compound writing, a codified system for brainstorming, drafting, and editing with AI. Today, that system is a plugin any writer can use. On this week’s AI & I, Natalia
A $10B Hedge Fund’s AI Playbook (Best of the Pod)
A $10B Hedge Fund’s AI Playbook (Best of the Pod) Aug 26, 2026 4026 Will England is the CEO of Walleye Capital, a hedge fund managing nearly $10 billion in assets. An engineer by training with a math background from Oxford, he has spent his career at the intersection of machines and markets—and has made AI fluency mandatory for all 400 employees. England believes refusing to use AI is like refusing to use the internet in 1995 because it wasn’t perfect. His use of
The AI Alien Companion App That's Bringing In $4M a Year (Best of the Pod)
The AI Alien Companion App That's Bringing In $4M a Year (Best of the Pod) Aug 19, 2026 4928 LLMs are a new medium for storytelling. That’s according to the creators of Portola, the company behind Tolan: an embodied AI companion that lives on its own planet and chats to you with a distinct personality. In 2025, Portola's founder and CEO Quinten Farmer and Head of Story Eliot Peper joined Dan Shipper to explain how they’re building this new medium from scratch. Their aim is to help users g
Microsoft’s Vision for an Internet Made for Agents With CTO Kevin Scott (Best of the Pod)
Microsoft’s Vision for an Internet Made for Agents With CTO Kevin Scott (Best of the Pod) Aug 12, 2026 1683 In 2025, Kevin Scott bet that the agentic web would be the next big thing in AI. The Microsoft CTO argued that for agents to be genuinely useful, they'd need to be able to take action on our behalf—which would mean giving them access to the same sprawl of tools, data, and systems that make up the internet. Today, that bet is starting to pay off, as the foundational infrastructure for the agentic w
Why the Next Hit AI Product Will Be Social Why the Next Hit AI Product Will Be Social (Best of the Pod)
Why the Next Hit AI Product Will Be Social Why the Next Hit AI Product Will Be Social (Best of the Pod) Aug 5, 2026 2914 Most consumer AI so far has been single-player: you and a chatbot, alone. Benchmark partner Sarah Tavel, one of Pinterest's first 30 employees, is betting that's about to change. She's looking for a product genius who can build an AI product with social DNA: status, network effects, and multiplayer dynamics. That'll enable users of ChatGPT and other models to learn from how others use AI and level
Best of the Pod: Wired's Kevin Kelly on Why AI Is a 50-year Overnight Success
Best of the Pod: Wired's Kevin Kelly on Why AI Is a 50-year Overnight Success Jul 29, 2026 3222 Kevin Kelly has spent over 30 years experiencing the edge of new technology: from the earliest days of the internet to the first years of Burning Man. But he’s always treated the frontier as a place to visit, not somewhere to live. It’s partially how he’s been able to stay grounded through tech’s various hype cycles. As founding executive editor of Wired and author of The Inevitable, Kelly spends
How Every's Team Used AI to Ship Its Biggest Launch Ever
How Every's Team Used AI to Ship Its Biggest Launch Ever Jul 22, 2026 2790 Yash Poojary, a growth engineer at Every, dropped an idea for a campaign in Slack at 7 p.m. Instead of building it himself, Every’s head of growth Austin Tedesco took a screenshot of the Slack thread, dropped it into Codex, typed "Can you do this?", and went to the gym. By the time he got back, Codex had built four audience segments, drafted emails for each one, and pulled a social image that had
The Founder of a $1.5B AI Company on What Comes After the First Wave of AI Apps
The Founder of a $1.5B AI Company on What Comes After the First Wave of AI Apps Jul 15, 2026 3578 “Running a startup is a knife fight whether things are going well or not,” says Chris Pedregal, cofounder and CEO of Granola. Granola recently raised a $125 million series C round at a $1.5 billion valuation on the strength of its AI meeting notetaker. That valuation hasn’t made Pedregal complacent. Granola built its name as the first to make good AI meeting notes, but Notion, OpenAI, and Zoom hav
How a Writer Uses AI Without Losing His Voice
How a Writer Uses AI Without Losing His Voice Jul 8, 2026 3187 Craig Mod used to pay Campaign Monitor roughly $7,000 a year to send his newsletters. After rebuilding the tool himself with AI, his bill is closer to $150. It’s the kind of thing that convinces him we’re about to enter a “golden age of tool building”—one where anyone can build tools specifically suited to their needs, instead of settling for software from incumbents that are slow to innovate. Mod

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